Fox's Football Fail: Can They Get Anything Right?

[Norris4pres2012]

Okay, they made a mistake. Media Matters, this is just sad....

By the way, go Buckeyes!

[wilhelmmeis]

@PoliticalWarrior When did President McCarthy serve? The Patriot Act did a great deal to rob Americans of the freedoms we have always believed this nation to be founded upon, but please don't speak out against something if you haven't got a clue what you are talking about.

I mean, nowadays we have Google for crying out loud, fact checking takes like 5 seconds!

[MrEatonbeaver]

wow, so unlike the fixed and bull shit channel to fuck something up, or just flat out lie.

[ClockwerkDingo]

Wow, this is obviously just media matters being pricks. This has nothing to do with politics at all. Is there any point other than trying to smear Fox News?

[retownsend]

Nope. MMFA has simply turned into an anti-FNC site.

9/10 videos on the site represent differences in opinion, not factual inaccuracies.

It appeals to their brain-dead audience, though.

[foresttdog]

@ClockwerkDingo exposing another obvious factual error on faux news

[ClockwerkDingo]

@foresttdog among what other factual errors, may I ask?

[bradzdestroyer]

What was the fail? Did they say the wrong team?

On November 19, Fox News' America's Newsroom displayed an onscreen graphic suggesting that the biggest rivalry in college football is between The Ohio State University and Michigan State University

[foresttdog]

@bradzdestroyer the rivalry is OSU - Michigan, not M state.

[jstorm73]

Easy to be a white trash racist republican, drink a lot of beer, watch Foxtv all day and "slow."

Rush, Palin, Hannity, Beck and

Billo...what an intellectual wrecking crew..LOL

[ceraines]

I think you're in the wrong place.

[theliberalparis]

It's so easy to be a right winger, you don't have to know anything ! all you need is a bible and a gun !

[toastertown6]

It's so easy to be a left winger, all you need is a lighter or paper shredder and a copy of the constitution.

[UrDoinItWrong]

@toastertown6 even though it was YOUR conservative president who has done the more actual damage to the constitution than any terrorist could hope for? Google "patriot act" "protect america act" and "military commissions act", you right-wing hillbilly retard. Fucking ignorant nascar moron.

[toastertown6]

He wasn't MY conservative President i hated his guts, almost as much as i hate nascar. He was in no way a conservative either, with the money he spent and the bills he passed. But Obama, so far he's spent about 3 times the money bush did and if health care passes that'll just be another nail in America's coffin. So im thinking Obama is doing more damage than bush did

[PoliticalWarrior22]

@toastertown6 Does the Patriot Act mean anything to you? Were you asleep for the duration of George Bush's terms in office? No president since McCarthy more blatantly violated the bill of rights than George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in the years after 9/11.

[toastertown6]

It means the same thing to me ass it does to you, a horrible bill that should never have been passed and Obama should not be supporting it

"those who sacrifice liberties for the sake of security are undeserving of either"

[ronpaulsucks1]

there is no fail here...

[mynameisbobtoo]

On Youtube? all you are going to get here is called names like fucktard and told you FAIL....

You should look for nicer men in the federal penitentiaries all you are going to find here are semi retarded pasty 20 somethings with no life experience if they didn't invent a video game about it.....

And people who think Alex Jones is sane.

[lingojac]

@mynameisbobtoo you must have it all figured out

[mynameisbobtoo]

Yes and struck a nerve with you too nerd boy seeing how you are a 20 something gamer.....too ironic you would respond......you and Amber should hook up....

Oh and ignored for the rest of our time here no need to respond to you again as it would be equal to trying to get a diaper full of shit to smell like roses....I mean what would be the point?

[lingojac]

i knew you wouldn't help but read my profile, smug people tend to do that.

[lingojac]

by "that", i mean try to prove their point by reading other's profiles. don't want to confuse you ;)

[warningfireexit]

If you want sports news go to ESPN.

[papalosopher]

Uh... MM4A... What was the point of that? Where was the fail?

[mrspeel7]

Gee, I'm the first Michigan fan to respond to you? :)

The BIG rivalry is University of Michigan vs. Ohio State University - not Michigan State University vs. OSU!

I just Googled "biggest football rivalry" out of curiosity. Well, try it for yourself, and check out the results.

[Dasconscripts]

thank you very much

MMFA should of explained that because not everyone knows collage foot all

[flowergirl1313]

Go Bucks!

[TheRamenAvenger]

umm ... pretty nitpicky guys

[ksecus]

Fox is entertainment, not news.

They need to be honest and admit it .

[LedusZeppelinus]

not once in that video did they suggest that it was the "biggest" rivalry.

more like Media Matters Fail

[joespeed87]

Is Fix News stupid? the answer is hell yes. I am from Ohio and I know that the biggest football in this state is OSU-Michigan. If you cant get the school right,then dont report it and let ESPN do its job.

[manonthemount]

is media-matters pro-truth or anti-fox

[cherrydog9]

same diff

[asphyxiafeeling]

getting kinda petty mediamatters. stick to the stuff that is important.

[WKaliberr]

my sister has a nice ass

[nt0xik8ed]

so did your mom, still got the pic :P

[WKaliberr]

no you dont

wanna see it tho?

[nt0xik8ed]

no, really. you sent it to me before my last account was closed. i use it everyday...

[WKaliberr]

to jack off?

[nt0xik8ed]

lol...

[cavspunk08]

Great Vid.And it shows that even if they wanted too..they can never get the facts right!!

[whoyouare13]

Ok I hate fox just as much as anyone. But this video is a little nit picky. Its just like when bernie goldberg went on hannity and actually critisize him for grasping at straws to find fault with President Obama. This video is grasping at straws to find fault with fox news. Mediamatters,don't go dow this petty road. You're better than this.

[PoliticalSkeptic]

i agree man. this was going too far. I'm sure we can find errors on this level on all the networks. Mediamatters should stick to intentional disinformation. Whether this is right or wrong it doesn't harm anyone.

[PivotKC]

yeh this video isn't really a legitimate argument against Fox.

[shinkster12]

Why was a video dedicated to this?

I agree with sjcpal, it's petty.

[NuRm69]

GO BLUE!!!!

[wowamonn]

Fuck Murdock! down with his agenda!

[goog2k]

I think FOX a basically a political propaganda machine, but I don't know if this vid is a legitimate criticism.

That was a simple college stunt to generate excitement against a traditional football rival. So what???

[thewgarber]

You, evidently, missed the point.

It was posted to show another example of the tenuous relationship FixNews has with the reporting of facts. It's a mistaken graphic, no huge deal. It was video from UofM labeled as being from MSU.

FauxNews = never FAIR, but, always imBALANCED.

[turtleblues66]

that is why they call themselves faux...

[Ed76638]

rubes

[cobrompton]

Why on earth do you think anyone's going to care about this?  You'd be better off just posting a link to the Daily Show.

[sjcpal]

It's Michigan vs. Ohio St. , the Fox said Michigan St. ,,,,Kinda petty Mediamatters4america

[Grinnar]

It's called snowball effect. Over a dozen blatant mistakes in a week means you should quit your day job. Or be fired from it.

[sjcpal]

Yeah, but what do you expect , after all it is Fox

[Grinnar]

"Well, yeah" isn't gonna cut it anymore. We need to start demanding credibility from those who claim to deliver us news, when it's not news.

[sjcpal]

Ok if thats not gonna cut it anymore , do you have any ideas on how to demand credibility from a news source, I have one i have been mulling over ...contact your Representative, Fox owns a Major News outlet , The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post , and i believe a paper in Washington..They all feed off each other with misinformation ...I believe the FCC has been sleeping on the job..

[Grinnar]

These things thrive on sales and viewership. Raise awareness and boycott them until they change their ways. Glenn Beck will be out of a job once he loses all his sponsors from drops in viewership. But mostly raise awareness and increase the amount of people who are willing to speak out loud and make themselves be heard and known.

[Nictusempra]

The FCC does not regulate accuracy in the news.

The government does not regulate the news at all, beyond laws regarding libel and certain "moral"issues mostly having to do with pornography. 

It would be horrible if they -did-.

[Michigan1985]

The text said Michigan State. It's supposed to be the University of Michigan. Michigan State hates Michigan and is probably rooting for Michigan to lose against OSU.

[thewgarber]

As a transplant from East Lansing to NW Ohio, I agree with you. But, man, living amongst these pompous luck-eyes is taxing. I have realized that my whole life, I hated UofMoo because of their program. But I now hate the *uckeyes because of their fans.

[rscottwhite]

"This is stupid, take this down"...take it DOWN...DOWN...Omigod, it's so stupid...soooooo stupid, please prettypleaseprettyplease take it down...

.... because it's such an unpleasant example of Fox News journalism...

....prettyplease....

[wervasdeferens]

The thing is that Fox consistently screws up. From putting a (D) with a GOPer, to showing the wrong footage while discussing crowd size, to this.

It's that they're an incompetent sham of a media outlet. Unprofessional hacks.....Glenn Beck,nuff said.

[cdfox85]

This is a dumb one.

[bentnutz929]

this video takes legitimacy away from your organization. I thought Mediamatters for america was meant to shed light on dishonest reporting, not a small slip on a sports report.

[Graphic36]

This is stupid, take this down.

[JohnnyBB82]

I'm confused, but then, I don't follow college football., :\

[sahyder1]

The rivalry is between Michigan and Ohio State. Michigan State is a completely different school

[Drumm3rboy48]

@sahyder1 yeah thats kinda the point but thanks for pointing it out

[sleezemoney]

It's University of Michigan that's the rival, not Michigan State.

[JohnnyBB82]

Ah, much appreciated.

[therealcaptobvious]

are you sure?

Woody Hayes had an agenda against BOTH of them.